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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The president of Sudan agreed to release American journalist Paul Salopek on Saturday after meeting with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a spokesman for the governor said. The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Chicago Tribune and his Chadian driver and interpreter will be picked up by Richardson in the war-torn Darfur region, where the three were arrested, said Pahl...

Copenhagen - A Danish newspaper published Friday some of the controversial cartoons recently exhibited in Iran that satirized the Holocaust, saying the move was necessary since the exhibition had its roots in Denmark. The exhibition in Tehran was organized in the wake of massive protests in the Muslim world earlier this year sparked by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's decision to publish...

The United States has long prided itself on enjoying a free press. Freedom House, an organization that measures freedoms worldwide, declared that journalists in the United States work in an environment of complete press freedom, according to its 2005 Map of Press Freedom. In the same year, among Arab countries only parts of Palestine were labeled “free,” while Bahrain, Kuwait, and Lebanon were...

MIAMI (Reuters) - At least 10 Florida journalists received regular payments from a U.S. government program aimed at undermining the Cuban government of Fidel Castro, The Miami Herald reported on Friday. Total payments since 2001 ranged from $1,550 to $174,753 per journalist, according to the newspaper, which said it found no instance in which those involved had disclosed that they were being paid...

Relatives of the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov from the city of Djizak already kicked up a scandal upon discovering secret services' interest in their family in early August. Margarita Karimova, the mother of independent journalist Jamshid Karimov, had specialists of the Djizak Municipal Directorate of Internal Affairs remove all bugs installed at her place a year ago. Colonel Marat...

BEIRUT: It's been said that the vibrancy of a city's media culture is a good indication of that city's quality of life. A metropolis with a lot of magazines is a metropolis with a lot going on. If one were to survey the newsstands in Beirut earlier this summer, one would have been impressed with the number of new and established titles on display - a spate of fashion rags, business journals and...

Ukrainian public opinion could come even more under the influence of official views from Moscow following the announcement of a recent multi-million-dollar media purchase in the Russian capital. Moscow-based Kommersant Publishing House, which publishes one of Ukraine’s leading business dailies, Kommersant Ukraine, has been sold to Kremlin-connected tycoon Alisher Usmanov for about $300 million...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Magazines from Vanity Fair to Flaunt to Wired have all published special "green" issues designed to raise awareness and bring attention to rising concern over global warming and climate control. But none went as far as The Economist to directly address the impact their own publications have on the environment. 'Journalistically interesting' Emma Duncan, deputy editor for...

COLLEGE students are famous for their transient ways, moving frequently and rarely leaving a permanent mailing address for magazine publishers to send subscription solicitations to. For now, some magazine publishers are settling for their e-mail address. A new digital initiative to begin this month will give away thousands of magazine subscriptions to college students, but the magazines will be...

Google has launched a service that will permit Internet users to search through the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and uncover material that in some cases dates back more than 200 years. The new feature, Google News Archive Search, will direct users to both paid and free digital content on publishers' websites, but will not directly generate revenue for Google. TIMELINED...